Alex Cox Quotes

• You’d never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

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• You can’t change the system through violence.

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• Yeah, I’d be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

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• We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

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• Visual representation of it is essential if we’re to come to terms with what it is we’ve done.

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• Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

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• The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it’s a big problem.

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• The life of a repo man is always intense.

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• The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

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• The future is always a dystopia in movies.

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• That’s my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don’t say yes to them.

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• Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

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• So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

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• Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it’s reflected in his writings.

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• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

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• No, I did a film called ‘Death and the Compass’ as well.

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• Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he’d managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

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• It’s always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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• In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

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• I’m a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

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Alex Cox (27)

Birth:	15th December, 1954
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Lyricist

About

Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career on independent movies. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 9, 2009. As of July 2012, Cox was teaching film production and screenwriting at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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